Cake-turner.



PATBNTED MAR. 20, 1906.

G.BANKS.

" CAKE TURNER.

APPLIOATION FILED JUI Q'E 19,1906.

Ira/021101" To all whom it may concern:

UNITED STATES PATENT oFFIoEj CHARLES BANKS, OF PITTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF TO-HERMANN LOHSE, OF PITTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

CAKE-TURNER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented March 20, 1906.

Applicationfiled June 19, 1905.- Serial No. 265,988.

Be it known that I, OHARLEs BANKS, a citizen of the United States of America, at Pittsburg, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cake-Turners, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in cake-turners, and

has for its primary objectthe provision of novel and effective means for the turning of griddle-cakes,batter-cakes, and the like without the necessity handle of the device. 7 I

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a cake-turner constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a top plan view thereof, partly broken away; and Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view of apart of the sector. a

To put my invention into practice, I provide a handle member 1, suitably shaped at its outer end to provide a convenient grip for the hand and carrying adjacent its other end outwardly extending lugs 2, in which ismounted for rotation a shaft or rod 3, to the outer end of which is rigidly-secured the caketurner 4, On its-inner end this rod or shaft carries a pinion 5, preferably a beveled one, which is rigidly secured on said rod or shaft,

the rod or shaft being held against longitudinal movement in the brackets or lugs 2 2 by means of this beveled gear and by means of a Washer or collar 6, secured to said ro'd adj acent one of the lugs 2. The pinion 5 meshes with the teeth of a sector 7, mounted for rocking movement on a pin or post 8, carried by the handle member 1, and which sector is i provided with a finger-piece 9, which'lies up over the handle member 1 in order to be inconvenient position to receive the thumbof the operator.

It will be observed that whenthe thumbpiece 9 is depressed toward the handle member the teeth of the sector 7, engaging with the inion 5, will impartrotarymovement to sll aft or rod 3 and invert the cake-turner 4' the length of the sector, and the posiresiding of the operator turning the I rally grooved to receive the coiled Where a sector of the type described is em-' tion between the thumb piece 9 and handle being such'that one operation only imparts sufficient rotary movement to the rod or attached to the sector, as at'll, near the teeth thereof. Where this form of spring is employed, I preferably provide the sector 7 at itspivotalpoint with a boss 12, periphespring 10.

its initial or normal position, ready to be again operated by depressing the thumbpiece 9.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1 Ina device of the character described, a

handle member, a shaft journaled in said handle member, a cake-turner carried bysaid shaft, a pinion carried by said shaft, a sector pivoted on the handle member, and having teeth on one side engagingthe teeth of said pinion, a. thumb-piece carried by said sector,

a grooved boss carried on the sector-pivot, and a coiled spring attached at one end to the handle member and atthe other end to saidsector, said coiled spring passing around said grooved boss.

' In testimony I whereof I afliX my signature in the presence of two-Witnesses;

' CHARLES BANKS. Witnesses:

H. O. EVERT, o E. E. POTTER. 

